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Simon & Schuster, October 2009
Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1416586121
ISBN-13: 9781416586128
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ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an award-winning journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State using the secret police files on her parents, as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends, colleagues, and even their children's babysitter. In this moving and brave memoir, Marton searches for and finds her parents and love.
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Browse Inside Enemies of the People"Powerful and absolutely absorbing. . . .Enemies of the People has all the magnetism, and, yes, the excitement, of the very best spy fiction. But would that it were fiction. . . . An honestly inspiring story."
-- Alan Furst, The New York Times Book Review
"Marton's story is one of bravery, suffering, survival and vindication. She tells it in straightforward, lucid prose . . . carefully reported, almost clinical account of what it is like to live in a totalitarian state and how hard it is to escape from it. . . . It's a terrific story, and Marton tells it very well."
--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
-- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
"Wonderful. . . . A family story that reads like a novel. . . . A book that is honest, frank, and true . . . recalls the best works of Koestler and Orwell, but contained within a family story, which remains for all its horrors, touching, life-loving, even, in its own unsentimental way, inspirational."
--Michael Korda, The Daily Beast
--Michael Korda, The Daily Beast
-- Michael Korda, The Daily Beast
"This is an honest, bracing, unforgettable story that will change the way readers think about the middle of the 20th century in Europe. For all of what we know of places like Hungary in the Stalinist period, we know nothing until we feel it, and here we do, finally and profoundly."
-- STEVE COLL, AUTHOR OF GHOST WARS AND THE BIN LADENS
"It is the rare page-turner and thriller that comes in the form of a family memoir. By sharing her family's improbable journey, Kati Marton has left her readers moved and changed, with a renewed appreciation for the freedoms -- and the family -- we cherish."
-- SAMANTHA POWER, AUTHOR OF A PROBLEM FROM HELL AND CHASING THE FLAME
"Kati Marton has written a candid and courageous book about a chapter in her parents' lives that most daughters would have preferred to leave unexamined."
-- LOUIS BEGLEY, AUTHOR OF MATTERS OF HONOR AND WARTIME LIES
MSN Entertainment, January 8, 2010
..."Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America" (Simon & Schuster, 257 pages, $26), by Kati Marton: Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain ...
NPR, December 24, 2009
...Kati Marton's latest book, 'Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America,' is an intimate memoir partly based on the Hungarian Secret Police file of her family. Marton ...
Foreign Policy Magazine, October 22, 2009
...revelations about the conduct and control behind the Iron Curtain are still coming up in shocking detail. Author Kati Marton details life in Communist Hungary in her new book Enemies of the People . Compiled using secret polices files ...
Individual.com, September 21, 2009
...On October 22 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., award-winning journalist and author Kati Marton will speak at a special networking event in Washington, DC about her new book, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America. Robin Strongin, creator ...
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